The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-07-21
LLEWxAM'S LETTER.
Chatty Correspondence From tn
Country's Capital.

Special Correspoadence to The Sentinel.
WASHINGTON, July 19.-The Pres
ident and Mrs. Cleveland have been
absent from Washington for a week,
visiting in New York State, but they
are expected to return to the White
House in a day or two. The pros
poets of his being able to visit Raleigh
during our state fair are still good,
and the probabilities are that the
President and possibly Mrs Cleve-
land, will favor North Cardinals cap
ital with a visit at that time.
OUT IN OHIO.
The Ohio Democratic State Com
vention will meet at Cleveland to-
morrow Goth and prominent Dem.
oerat of that State tells me that AL
Ian G. Thurman, ''the noblest Old
Roman of them all' is sure to be the
gubernatorial candidate of his party,
if he can be induced to accept the
nomination, in which event he is
equally certain that he will be elected.
Judge Thurman is personally averse
to running for that Office and he has
repeatedly stated that he did not want
the nomination, but it is thought that
if he was nominated by practically
unanimous vote, appealed to, to ac
cept for the sake of the party, he
would be willing to lay aside personal
considerations and come to its rescue.
Dispatches from Ohio, however, iRti.
mate that his health is sush as to pre-
clude this possibility. In that event
Powell will probably be the nominee.
If Thurman should run and be elect
ed by substantial majority he would
be formidable competitor for the
Presidential nomination next year.
Indeed he might possibly capture the
prize. Thurman has always been a
stanch friend of the South and of the
Southern people, and he would have
an immense following from that sect
ion all the anti Cleveland delegates
would easily concentrate upon him
and about the only thing which would
operate against him would be the
question of his availability: could
he carry New York ?" | am afraid
not. Wall street and the gold bugs
would be against him, especially if
John Sherman was his opponent.
THE FANCY FOR FORAKER.
The Ohio Republican convention
will be held at Toledo on the 9th
of this month and the present COVER
nor, john b. foraker, will undoubted-
| ly be renominated. He is the fellow
who so ably assisted Anathema Fair
child in the great feat of stepping on
their ears recently, in connection
with the late flags incident" and he
is altogether a very diminutive potato.
This man foraker was first nominated
for governor in 's3 and was defeated
by Hoadly, Greedy Democrat. l
went out to Ohio at that time and
edited paper for the proprietors dur
ing the Hoadly-foraker campaign and
l saw great deal of that political
liliputian. He is a small potato, a
very small potato just large enough,
however, to faunt the ensanguined
garment for all it is worth, which
will probably not be much this year,
however well it may have paid in for
mer Ammo Dominis. 1t elected him,
however, in '85 over Hoadly, who
had defeated him two years previous
ly, and it may possible elect him
again-in Ohio.
The very blacklist of the black Re-
publican South haters are to be found
in that State, especially in what is
known as the Western reserve" Sec
ton and as natural sequence they
welcome "the poor niger" to their
social bosoms.
CUFFY AT THE CAPITAL.
| Speaking of negroes, Washington
is Sambo's mundane heaven; and
speaking of inter marriage between
the races, we have some of that here
too. Only last week negro woman
created scene at the Surg con Gen.
erals Office by demanding money Of
her white husband-a man named
Renner, and a few days ago a blue
black, beefsteak Tipped negro woman
swore that she was married to a white
man whom she pointed out to the
| judge of the police court but the
husband is generally the negro and
there are probably several hundred
white women in Washington who
have negro husbands. To a Southern
man this, OF course, is a most disgusting
state of affairs, but it is hardly to be
wondered at here, when many of the
lower classes of whites treat their ne
gro neighbors as social equals. These
white people are principally from the
West and the North and those of for
eign birth. Of course all Western
and Northern people and foreigner:
do not regard the negro in such 8
light, but many of them do. I re
member very distinctly a reception
given by the late Senator Logan, Of
Illinois, to a local negro military com
pany The company drew up in
front of the Senator's residence and
he made them speech. That was
all right. Then they were invited in.
to his house to partake of refresh
ments. By a hard effort one might
be able to overlook that indiscretior
in view that of the fact that Logan
was a Republican politician. But
that wasn't all. The negroes were af
forwards invited into the parlor, where
they were received" by Mrs. Logan,
assisted by the negro, Fred Dougla,
and his white wife Such instances
as this, which might be enumerated
| by the hundreds have not failed in
their natural effect, and the conse.
quence is that the greater majority Of
them are the most impudent, audac
ious and most lawless set in America
There are $4,000 negroes in Washing
ton, just one third Of the population